‘Youth Leagues’ Archives

Once autumn fades away, baseball does not fade away. Instead it begins its awards season. For the Major League players in the US, this means the Cy Young award, the leagues’ Most Valuable Player, and Gold Gloves for the top fielders. Well, things are no different at [Read More]

This was another fantastic Herts Futures Tournament with 20 teams entering the four different age divisions. UNDER-17 In the Under-17 Division Herts Kites had their revenge over the London Mets who beat them in an epic National Championship Semi-Final six days earlier. [Read More]

20 teams will be in action at the 2014 Herts Futures Tournament (HFT) which will take place this Saturday, 17 September 2016. UNDER-17 Three teams will play a league format facing each of their opponents. The team finishing top will be the U17 HFT champion. U17 TEAMS Herts [Read More]

After the cancellation of all YNBC games on Saturday the British Baseball Federation has published the revised games schedule for Sunday, 11 September, which is as follows: U16 SCHEDULE Sunday, 11 September 2016 8:00am, Semi-Final: Herts Kites (U16) @ London Mets (U16) (on [Read More]

Since publishing this article Saturday’s games were cancelled due to rain. We are expecting confirmation of the revised games schedule for Sunday. The Herts Hawks brought the Single-A League National Championship trophy back from Farnham Park last Sunday. This [Read More]

Football and non-football fans will be glued to their TV screens this Saturday evening as Match of the Day returns for the start of the new Premier League season. The reason is something which happened in the first few weeks of last season when 5000-to-1 outsiders, [Read More]

Marianna Casal and Theo Longboy became Under-19 European Softball Champions at the weekend. Herts fans will recognise their names as both came through the Herts youth baseball programme. 2008 saw the inaugural season of the Herts Little League and at the time it is unlikely [Read More]

Herts Baseball Club has announced that the 2016 Herts Futures Tournament will take place on Saturday, 17 September 2016. The Herts Futures Tournament (HFT) has been held every year since 2008 and is now a permanent fixture in the British baseball calendar. Last year was a [Read More]

report by Mike Wakelam With Brighton setting up a new youth baseball programme in 2016, Herts U13 and U11 teams headed south for their first road trip of the season. With great weather and a warm welcome, a great day was had by all. The U11 teams had a couple of very [Read More]